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Image missingFig. 112.Man's under trousers. cold weather, is worn between the outer and the under stocking, or in spring and autumn between the stocking and the sealskin boot; the hair is inside; the cut is the same as on the shoe.
Occasionally socks of seal skin (pineraq) are worn with the hair-side out.
Fig. 120 (Aivilingmiut, Repulse Bay) is a sealskin shoe of the kind that is used indoors, in the snow house, in winter where the caribou-skin shoe would soon be ruined by the damp. The sole is of light seal skin, turned up and crimped, strengthened by an extra sole of black bearded-seal skin; the upper, of black seal skin, is in two pieces; at the top is an edging of hairy caribou skin with a running cord, which passes through two eyes in the edge of the sole. 26 cm long, 12 cm wide, 8 cm high. A pair from Ponds Inlet are quite the same, except that the soles are of black, bearded-seal skin and the upper of yellow seal skin. A pair from the Aivilingmiut on Southampton Island have uppers of short-haired caribou skin and, between them and the black sole, is a strip of yellow seal skin.
Fig. 121 a (Aivilingmiut, Repulse Bay) is a mitten of caribou skin for winter use, with the hair side out. The wrist is decorated with two white and intermediate black stripes; the mitten is made of three pieces of skin, one of which forms the whole of the back, two the
